In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/28/2007
at 07:26 PM, Doug Fuerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Maybe Apple will patent air next. They can join Microsoft in the
>application. This is insane.
It's certainly abusive if apple means to enforce the patent, but if it's
just a defensive patent then it's a reasonable response to a broken
system. The real problem is that the USPTO is not checking for prior art
or for things that are obvious to a practitioner.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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